Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are records of it going back hundreds of years all across Europe and it is presumed it was based on fertility influences . ’ |
| 2 | The population , much of it aged under 18 , is 26% black , 15% white and 56% Hispanic . |
| 3 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 4 | The nearest star , called Proxima Centauri , is found to be about four light-years away ( the light from it takes about four years to reach Earth ) , or about twenty-three million million miles . |
| 5 | The Long Library , almost 200 ft. long is considered to be the room of the most outstanding beauty for it contains over 10,000 books plus various paintings by Van Dyck and Reynolds . |
| 6 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |